title: A pediatric patient with acute hepatitis E in Japan.
abstract: We encountered a 14-year-old Bangladeshi boy who developed acute hepatitis E in Japan. He showed improvement without the development of fulminant hepatitis. His hepatitis E virus (HEV) genotype was I, which causes epidemics mainly in South Asia. He developed this disease more than 6 months after coming to Japan. Considering the latent period, it was suspected that he had been infected with HEV in Japan, although the HEV virus is presumed not to be indigenous to Japan.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, 1-8-1 Inohana, Chiba, 260-8670, Japan. hyouma37@yahoo.co.jp
authors.forename: Yoshitami
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sanayama
authors.forename: Naruhiko
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ishiwada
authors.forename: Chie
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Fukasawa
authors.forename: Masaki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kanazawa
authors.forename: Yoko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tamano
authors.forename: Koji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yano
authors.forename: Yoichi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kohno
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000293:Adolescent; D001459:Bangladesh / Q000208:ethnology; D006508:Hepatitis Antibodies / Q000097:blood; D016751:Hepatitis E / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000821:virology; D016752:Hepatitis E virus / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D010802:Phylogeny; D012367:RNA, Viral / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification
chemical_list: D006508:Hepatitis Antibodies; D012367:RNA, Viral